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Message from Karkash (guitarist Dajjal, Bandung Death Metal): "Staytune for Dajjal's total aggression this year with the new energy, formation, and arts! Of course it will be aggressive and more heavy! Hopefully we can enter the studio in the middle of this year to record some new materials. Thanks a lot guys for always supporting us!! We will update to you about our website, fan pages, etc soon. Thanks a lot! Stay true and keep metal ALIVE!"

Interview with Karkash by Kieran James:

Karkash, Dajjal show @ Hellprint

The new Dajjal line-up includes three new and talented musicians from Bandung Death Metal Syndicate to replace former members Zulfi (guitar) and Runal (drums). The new members will be revealed to the public soon. Two are from older bands and the drummer is a young person in an old band. The bassist is from a Bandung old-school hardcore band and he has adjusted very well to DM so far. "He really nailed it", says Karkash.

Dajjal has a plan to do live cover versions of Metallica, Kreator, and Iron Maiden in a thrash style but with DM elements. The Metallica song will be "Fight Fire with Fire". The vocals may not be thrash style. "I want to hear Barock Dajjal's voice", says Karkash. "Hopefully we can play Endless pain/ Pleasure to kill too", explains Karkash.

Barock (vokalis)

Karkash has written five new songs and the target is 8-10 songs but the band does not know whether to release singles first or albums. "Two things that I love about Dajjal are that we wear costumes and are brutal", says Karkash. "Everytime I perform with them it boosts my adrenaline", he says.

"We are the most controversial band in Indonesia because of our name", says Karkash. Dajjal is Arabic for prevaricator or falsifier. However, Karkash says the real meaning is the acronym for "Dari Jejeran Jalan". It means "we grew up in the street or suburban". Dari = From.. Jejeran = side/lined.. Jalan = street/road. "We are all Muslims but we write about the dark side of humanity. That is why our album was called Human Dark Side", says Karkash [interview via Facebook chat, 21 January 2017].

Abolishing the Ignominious (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA) - Vociferous Obsolescence (Coyote Records) An abomination was born by Abolishing the Ignominious all around the f***ing world and spreading a bloody carnage of the most f***ing brutal with a "Vociferous Obsolescence" putting the f***ing Earth to rot! This hungry f***ing beast performs a twisted Brutal Death F***ing Metal destroying everything in its f***ing path in a f***ed up f***ing way and with this first massacre, Its managing very well to mark the f***ing minds of scared people! This "Vociferous Obsolescence" is divided in six killer f***ing acts being all f***ing excellent and having all of them a few boring parts but surrounded by great moments making flows this f***ing shit still very well! Because of the very high twisted touch, its not really the kind of release being very addictive maybe by lacking on the catchy riffing side but mostly because this f***ing shit is completely f***ed up on all f***…

Kieran James (Busuk Chronicles): Hi,
can you tell me the early history from the formation of the band up to now? Arelys
Jimenez (female vocalist): Greetings! I have been trying to form my own black
metal band for many years now. Finally got it to happen! It started by the end
of 2014, with a complete different line-up which I was contacted from a post I
had on craigslist looking for members and we were called Enochian Ritual. I
felt the band was not progressing as I wanted to be. I told them it is best to
depart ways as I pursue what I am looking for in creating this band. I went
through a few line-up changes from members moving out of state, wanting to
focus on their own project, or simply work-related interference. Now we are
back with a full line up and new band name “Matianak” (which is an Indonesian
folklore witch that died from stillbirth.) The band now consists of 2 guitarists,
bass player, drummer, and me on vocals and I hope that there are no changes
again so that I can contin…

My interview with Dajjal (Bandung death-metal)Interpretation by: Popo (Vocalist Demons Damn)Expert Comments & Questions by: Popo and Bobby
Rock (Vocalist Hydro) Dajjal is: Barok (Vocals); Zulf (Guitar); Karkash
(Guitar); and Runal (Drums); no bass player at present. Note that Karkash has
since left the band.Date: 22 January 2014 @ Dada’s Deathstar Tattoo, BandungJack
Frost: It is great that we can finally interview your band because Dajjal is a
legendary band in Bandung although now with Karkash, the young-blood guitarist.
It is good I got to know Karkash through the Facebook so now we can have this
interview. Please tell us the history of the band. Runal
(Drummer): We were formed in October 1995. The original member until now is
only Barock. JF:
The oldest? Karkash:
One of the oldest! JF:
How many albums for your band? Zulf
(Guitarist): Two. JF:
What are the album titles? Karkash:
The first album Amarah, meaning
“anger”, was released in 2000 and the second album called Human Dark Side i…

Kieran James: Hi, can you tell me the early history from the formation of the band up to now? VALAFAR band: We formed early 2013 in Bradford, West Yorkshire. Most of the band knew each
other from previous groups around the Bradford circuit and joined to create Valafar.
Our first Demo EP 'Ritual of the Diabolical' was released in February 2013. Following
this, 'Helheim', the first full length album was independently released in August 2015.
Since then we have been performing regularly nationwide at clubs, bars and
festivals. KJ2: How is the response of people to your debut full-length album Helheim? We’ve had a great response so far from our fans. The first pressings of the CD sold
out completely and the reviews have been extremely positive. We’re still frequently
selling copies online and at gigs over a year after the initial release. KJ3: What are the most influential bands for you guys in playing music? As a band we take our influences from Scandinavian bands such as…

Kieran James1: Please tell us the band history and the line-upchanges up until today. Shasank Venkat (lead guitarist)1.) It all started back in 2009 when Siri (vocals / bass), Sravan (vocals / rhythm guitar) and myself Shasank (lead guitar) got together and formed a hard rock / metal cover band called Echo. We played a lot of gigs around the country but we never got a chance to write and play our own music since it was a cover band. In 2014, we decided to form another band dedicated to playing our own music. Noble John (Drums) joined us as the drummer and that's how Against Evil happened.

2 How has response been to the Against Evil EP? What countries or regions have you had the most impact?2.) The response to our debut EP "Fatal Assault" has been amazing! Most of the critical acclaim came from parts of Europe and India.

3 What are the band influences? The song I prefer is
Speedbreaker and I hear the strong Judas Priest and Accept influence, is
that correct?3.) You are ri…